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Blue Bottle Coffee
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMarch 11, 2020
- address100 Federal St, Boston 02110
Is Blue Bottle Coffee clean?
Blue Bottle Coffee is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on March 11, 2020. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Blue Bottle Coffee?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on March 11, 2020. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Blue Bottle Coffee last inspected?
Blue Bottle Coffee has 7 inspections on record going back to May 8, 2018.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| September 14, 2022 | — | |
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| March 11, 2020 | Pass | |
| October 18, 2019 | Pass | |
| May 13, 2019 | — | |
| October 31, 2018 | — | |
| May 8, 2018 | Pass |
Blue Bottle Coffee vs Downtown
Downtown runs 90% clean across 1,016 tracked restaurants — 866 clean, 53 mid, 42 cooked.
Against the 1,016 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 11% of them.
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How Boston grades restaurants
Boston reports inspections as a pass or a fail, with no score and no letter. What separates a bad fail from a trivial one is the violation severity ladder: a single star is a minor issue, two stars is more serious, and three stars marks a critical foodborne-illness risk factor — temperature abuse, bad handwashing, cross-contamination. A restaurant can fail on paperwork alone, which is not the same as failing on food safety. Cooked splits Boston fails accordingly: a fail with a three-star violation reads cooked, a fail on minor items only reads mid.
Source: Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division via Analyze Boston. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated March 11, 2020. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.